Daniel Day-Lewis spoofs Clint Eastwood chair routine - video

The actor was accepting the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film from Steven Spielberg at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Britannia Awards yesterday when he broke into the impromptu piece of stand-up, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"I have to say that I'm so extremely grateful and glad that - taking time out of his very busy schedule - the recently re-elected President of this country has made it here," he said, gesturing to the chair.

"I know as an Englishman it's absolutely none of my business, but I'm just so very grateful it was you!"

"I love Clint Eastwood," he said. "This is no satirical comment on his politics or anything else.

"But I have to say, when I saw him talking to a chair in front of a room full of strangers, I thought, 'I've got to try that. That's a challenge'. I didn't pull it off quite as well as him, but anyhow, I've got some way to go."

Day-Lewis will next be seen in the Spielberg-directed biopic Lincoln, which will arrive on November 16 in the US and January 25 in the UK.